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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 3, 2016 Cottage Grove Retrospective A look back at a Sentinel story from 40 years ago Aug. 5 1976 He doesn't call himself a wrecker Doug Howell of Cottage Grove tears down buildings for a living, but he does not like to be called a wrecker. “I generally refer to myself as a building dismantler, as opposed to a wrecker,” Mr. Howell said Monday. “I can salvage 85 to 90 percent of a build- ing, if I’ve got the time to do it.” Since last week, Mr. Howell has been dismantling the old Joe Short building on Main Street. The building is located just east of the new City Hall building, and the old store is on city land that is planned for a parking lot and driveway to serve the new municipal facility. Mr. Short has moved out of the building, taking his business and mer- chandise to the city’s old 6th Street city hall. Earlier this year, the city called for bids for the Short building. The bid- der was to get the building, with a time limit to remove it from the city’s prop- erty. Mr. Howell, operating as Doug Howell Enterprises, was the only bid- der. He bought the building for a $6.92 low bid. The Cottage Grove man said he does not usually purchase buildings. He said he generally contracts to remove the buildings for someone else. POLICE BLOTTER July 25 Property Found, Spirit Trail A caller advised that there is an orange wood-chipper in the bushes near the location. The wood-chipper is a Cray Bearcat Model #70050 with a Ramsey-Waite sticker on it. All attempts to identify the owner were unsuccessful. July 27 Property Found, E. Main St. “The primary reason I did it was be- cause the bid contract was written that way,” Mr. Howell explained. “I didn’t mind doing the city a job.” Mr. Howell said he made a similar deal with the city this year, when he tore down half of the old Southern Pa- cifi c depot at 9th and Main streets in return for the right to sell off the mate- rial he could salvage. And that, basically, is the way Mr. Howell works. He bids to remove a building and then attempts to make his money by selling the material he can save from the structure. “It makes me mad when I see these guys go in and knock everything down and haul it off to the dump,” Mr. How- ell said. “I get a lot of satisfaction out of recycling a building.” If everything goes as planned, Mr. Howell said he will have the Short building down in three to four weeks. He said he will probably make about $6,000 from the project. “I usually sell the material off the job; it’s not unusual to have the entire building sold before I start,” Mr. How- ell said. “I’ve got about half of this Doug Howell takes down a building to sell one sold, and I’ve only been on the job the parts. three days.” Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 A complainant advised that the interrupted a drug deal go- ing on the parking lot of the location. The subjects dropped a bag of some kind of crystal substance. Offi cers on scene determined it was a bag of meth. One of the subjects was last seen wearing a red hoodie. Suspicious Conditions, 6th and Main St. An offi cer was told by his wife that a possible vehicle from the a robbery the previous day was last seen near the loca- tion. The complainant advised CITY BEAT Webinar From the City's Friday Update The City Manager, Community Development Director, City that it was possible that this was the vehicle and the suspect from yesterday's robbery. An offi cer and an employee are going to review video footage from the Little Caesars and re- port to the police department. July 29 Motor Vehicle Accident, 16th and Main. Multiple calls came in stat- ing that a female was hit by a vehicle on 16th St. The victim was transported to McKenzie Willamette. The driver was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian. Property Found, 6th and Adams St. A complainant advised po- lice of a large purse sitting on the ground at the location next to a telephone line. The purse is turquoise in color with brown handles. It is a Rosetti brand bag containing miscellaneous women’s toiletries. Planner, Main Street Coordi- nator and Chamber Executive Director participated in a webi- nar hosted by the International City/County Management As- sociation (ICMA) on Revitaliz- ing Retail. The webinar shared ideas on how to develop and improve existing retail oppor- tunities in the community and how to recruit and encourage new retail developments. the unions; this meant that even though the Journal had no dog in the Oregonian stereotypers’ fi ght, it was forced into it, es- sentially, by treaty obligations. And unlike the Oregonian, the Journal was not fi nancially pre- pared for it. The Journal was no longer being run by the family that had founded it back in 1902. Fear- some newsman Sam Jackson, and later his son Philip, had built it from nothing into Portland’s leading newspaper. But by the late 1950s all members of the family were dead. And the last surviving Jackson, Sam’s widow Maria, had left specifi c instruc- tions in her will that the paper was under no circumstances to be sold to Newhouse. But it was no secret that New- house wanted very much to buy it, so that he could enjoy an ef- fective local monopoly; and the trustees were quite willing to sell it to him, if they could just fi gure out how to get around Maria Jackson’s posthumous edict. They’d already defeated one such edict. In her will, Maria had instructed that all the fami- ly’s stock in the company was to be distributed to the employees. But the trustees had challenged the bequest, and got a judge to rule that she had made it in “wishful” language, and that Street Striping On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, City streets with traffi c control striping, were restriped by Lane County. The City contracts with Lane Coun- ty each year to restripe City 5A CLIP N' CARRY GARAGE SALES YARD SALE 78074 Mosby Creek Rd. Fri-Sat 9am-2pm Books, youth girl clothes, lots of 10 cent items. HUGE SALE! 1st house after left on Gowdyville Road. 40 years of accumu- lation. House-hold, shop, yard, antique items, clothes, 1954 D2, furniture. Fri-Sat 9am-3pm Treasures are wait- ing for you at THE OLD TIME GOSPEL FEL- LOW-SHIP RUM- MAGE SALE. 103 S. 5th Street. Fri-Sat 9am-3pm Sofa, fi rewood, 4 maple dining chairs. Priced to Sell! Open at 9 a.m. sharp! MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE 2175 Carver Fri-Sat 9am-3pm All name brand clothing: adult, girls 0-10, boys 0-10, Build-a-Bears, toys, home decor, too much to list! Cash only. YARD SALE 77796 Sunset Drive Fri-Sat 9am-4pm GARAGE SALE 1661 Hwy. 99 N., #16 Fri-Sat 9am-4pm GARAGE SALE 1306 N. 19th St. Fri-Sat 9am-4pm Air tools, mechanic tools, collector plates and much more! No early sales! MULTI-FAMILY YARD SALE 325 Grant Ave. Sat. only 8am-2pm Kid's clothes, women's clothing, holiday, home decor and much more! HUGE YARD SALE Fri-Sat 9am-5pm 31516 Rudolph Rd Dryer, Kids clothes, pool table, toys, bikes, great deals! SHOP SALE Fri-Sat-Sun 8am- 5pm 35 S. 21st St. Guy Stuff: tools, auto, building, hardware, welding, hunting, camping, misc & old stuff. MULTI-FAMILY YARD SALE Saturday 9am- 3pm 1200 E Quincy Yakima rack, stained glass sup- plies, & lots more. 78376 Cedar Park Rd. Friday 9am-2pm Saturday 9am- 12pm GARAGE SALE Sat-Sun 9am-4pm 36778 Shoreview Drive 6 mile marker Dorena Lake Tools, car parts, car dolly, PU trailer, household, holiday, too much to list - cash please ESTATE SALE FRI-SAT 8AM-? 77500 S. 6th St. space A-49 (River- stone Trailer Park) Glassware, yard items, table/chairs, twin bed, size 7W women's shoes lot of useable items BRICKER ES- TATE SALE Sat 9am-6pm Sun 10am-5pm 1022 N 11th St. UPCOMING: DRAIN CITY- WIDE YARD SALE Saturday, Aug. 13 7am In park and around town. Reserve park space, call 541-870-5442 GARAGE SALE 269 Hayes Ave. (by Lincoln Middle School) Fri, Sat, Sun, 10-5 No earlies Furniture, king-size bed, tools and misc., composter streets. This work is generally performed in one or two nights each year between 5:00 pm and 4:00 am. In addition to the street striping, the Public Works Utilities Crew has made ar- rangements with a private con- tractor to restripe the parking lot at Middlefi eld Golf Course. This work will also include the repainting of the handicap parking spaces, as well as, the pedestrian crossings and speed bumps on Village Drive. In addition, the Middlefi eld Home Owner’s Association may piggy-back on this job to have their parking lot, located behind the Association’s community center, restriped. it was therefore null and void; so, the trustees got to keep con- trol. Needless to say, Newhouse found these trustees far easier to work with than would have been the case had the Journal been owned by its employees – espe- cially during the strike. So the year 1960 found the Journal hard-pressed, and the Oregonian not much better. They’d teamed up to produce a single edition, the Oregonian- Oregon Journal, which was delivered to all their dwindling subscribers; but delivery was suddenly very uneven, and the quality of the newspaper was terrible. Cancellations were pouring in. It would have ap- peared to anyone looking, in early 1960, like the unions were going to win this fi ght. But that’s when one of the members of the stereotypers’ union — the union that started the whole thing — made a cru- cial mistake. And although that mistake wouldn’t put the kiss of death on the whole operation — that would happen the following year, with the shooting outside Donald Newhouse’s basement window — it would set the stage for it. Because, how hard is it to believe a union will try to murder the manager, after the union has hired bombers and given them dynamite? We’ll talk about that bombing, and the events that followed, in next week’s column. O FFBEAT Continued from page 4A ber of strikers. In response, Newhouse brought in a cadre of out-of-state strikebreakers — some of whom turned out to be thugs with sawed-off shotguns and prison records — to keep the paper going. These turned out to be better at making trou- ble than they were at making a newspaper, and the Oregonian’s quality suffered shockingly, which made the union organiz- 6 ers’ door-to-door efforts to get locals to cancel their subscrip- tions that much easier. Meanwhile, over at the Or- egon Journal — the competing Portland daily newspaper, which was still locally owned — one might have expected things to be going rather better. In fact, they were going much worse. 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